EPW033359 ENGLAND (1930). The town, the River Brue and Bridgwater Bay, Highbridge, 1930

Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, Goods Shed

Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, Goods Shed

George Edward Terrace

Gore Sands

Gssometer

The Electric Theatre

The Reed Arms

Blands Timber Yard

Highbridge wharf

La Retraite Convent

Brewery Corner

St Andrews Church

Pillsmouth Football Ground( The Donkey Field)

Sandyway

Start Island

The pier public house, formally the Railway.

Belmont hotel

Coronation field, originally Burnham Cricket Clubs ground.

The pavilion.

Brickworks

Upper light house

Lower lighthouse

Pills mouth farm

Apex Pits, brickworks

Halfway house

Holts brewery, Sandy way, Burnham

The Old Grey Buildings, originally a coke works

Railway Hotel

Walrow

Walrow Terrace

Burnham Road

St. John the Evangelist Church

Burnham on Sea Station

Queen's Hotel

The confluence of the Brue and the Parrett

Mouth of the River Parrett - Somerset's largest river, with the Tone, the Isle and the Yeo - formerly the Ivel - as significant tributaries

Stert Flats

Brue Farm

Bacon factory

Flooded claypits - probably

Bristol Bridge Brickworks

Newtown

Brue Bridge. Before the M5 Motorway was built this bridge carried the traffic from Bristol to the South West. It was a link in the A38 Trunk Road. Highbridge was a bottleneck on bank holidays and in the summer in the 1950s and 60s

New Clyce Bridge

Clyce Road

Cattle market

Old River Brue

The Somerset and Dorset clearly supported its staff by providing a large amount of space for allotments.

Railway - railway level crossing - the single track Somerset and Dorset crossed the double track Great Western mainline on the level under the road over bridge.

GWR signalbox by railway crossing with Somerset & Dorset

Somerset & Dorset sidings

Railway to Bristol

Goods shed - for Great Western Railway

Highbridge locomotive depot, I think - for Somerset & Dorset engines

Locomotive turntable

Bristol Channel

Burnham on Sea

Ex Somerset & Dorset branch line to Burnham on Sea

Ex Somerset & Dorset railway station at Highbridge

Train at platform, possibly an arrival from Evercreech Junction

Tank engine with two coaches

Highbridge works. Repair shops and carriage works for the old Somerset & Dorset railway

Steam-hauled passenger train just pulling out or passing through Highbridge station, heading for Bridgwater and Taunton

Bridgwater Great Western railway station. On what was originally Brunel's Bristol and Exeter main line